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Literary studies: general
Paperback. The cariacatures of feminists as grim-faced ideologues destroying the study of literature are comprehensively rebutted in this work, offering instead a clear assessment of the relative merits of various feminist approaches to literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226241159
- ISBN
- 9780226241159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.81
€ 32.99
€ 25.81
Paperback. The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 162 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405147248
- ISBN
- 9781405147248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.70
€ 38.70
Hardback. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh Editor(s): Felski, Rita. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801887390
- ISBN
- 9780801887390
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Condition: New
€ 85.73
€ 85.73
Paperback. In Western culture, the separation of humans from nature has contributed to a schism between the conscious reason and the unconscious dreaming psyche, or internal human "nature." This book uses Jung's idea of the shadow to explore how this divorce results in alienation, projection, and often breakdown. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; RNA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926568
- ISBN
- 9780813926568
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Condition: New
€ 40.13
€ 40.13
Hardcover. This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230477
- ISBN
- 9780230230477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Series: Gallica. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6, 5 black and white, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2ADF; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843023
- ISBN
- 9781843843023
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Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Hardback. This 25th anniversary reader brings together a group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship since 1980. Editor(s): Heath, Stephen; McCabe, Colin; MacCabe, Colin. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333763711
- ISBN
- 9780333763711
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Condition: New
€ 129.23
€ 129.23
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349504060
- ISBN
- 9781349504060
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Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Paperback. Editor(s): McPeak, Rick; Orwin, Donna Tussing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801478178
- ISBN
- 9780801478178
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.22
€ 34.99
€ 32.22
Hardcover. Editor(s): Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 221 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137558671
- ISBN
- 9781137558671
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardback. Examines Charlotte Armstrong's contribution to the suspense genre through an exploration of her childhood diaries, adult correspondence, published and cinematic works, reviews of those works, and the recollections of her agent, children, and grand children. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911229
- ISBN
- 9781575911229
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Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Paperback. Editor(s): Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 99 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 99
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469447
- ISBN
- 9780226469447
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.58
€ 16.99
€ 14.58
Hardcover. This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616752
- ISBN
- 9780230616752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Paperback. This new edition to the Crime Files series considers how the cozy world of Agatha Christie is threatened by modernity and uncertainty: war, social mobility, extremist politics and moral liberalization. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349357413
- ISBN
- 9781349357413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.54
€ 65.54
Hardcover. This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525016
- ISBN
- 9780230525016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.85
€ 132.85
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946487868
- ISBN
- 9780946487868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.66
€ 21.99
€ 16.66
Paperback. In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474411349
- ISBN
- 9781474411349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.47
€ 40.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349293766
- ISBN
- 9781349293766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.52
€ 53.36
€ 46.52
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 442 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623009
- ISBN
- 9780691623009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.65€ 51.34
€ 64.65
€ 51.34
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 442 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649719
- ISBN
- 9780691649719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.81
€ 227.81
Paperback. Provides a facing-page translation of the "Book of Chivalry". This book describes the prowess and piety of knights, their capacity to express themselves, their common assumptions, and their views on masculine virtue, women, and love. Editor(s): Kaeuper, Richard W.; Kennedy, Elspeth. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215793
- ISBN
- 9780812215793
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.45
€ 36.99
€ 34.45
textbook. This collection of essays on the English novel in the 18th-century reflects the state of transatlantic criticism on the 18th-century novel and outlines developments in critical trends since the 1970s. Arguments focus on the "origins" of the novel. Series: Longman Critical Readers. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780582088559
- ISBN
- 9780582088559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.69
€ 66.69
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; BG; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312225605
- ISBN
- 9780312225605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472085408
- ISBN
- 9780472085408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.10
€ 34.99
€ 32.10